I've conversed with many individuals in receipt of lifetime pensions at temporary disability rates from the time of their injury per California workers' compensation law. Recent changes to California workers' compensation law provide that injured workers who are receiving workers' compensation benefits in the form of lifetime pensions (aka "life pensions") or permanent total disability for dates of injury on or after January 1, 2003 may be entitled to a rate adjustment. The L

California construction workers regularly lose their lives for their work. The death of a construction worker is something that few want to discuss but must clearly be addressed. California workers' compensation law considers the devastating death of a construction worker that occurs in the course and scope of his or her duty a work related death, which may entitle the deceased's family and others to compensation pursuant to California workers' compensation law benefits. Howe

California workers' compensation law requires a nurse who develops methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infections (MRSA) to prove that the infection was contracted at work. MRSA is a staph infection that does not respond to most antibiotics. As many as 78% of MRSA infections are contracted from health facility centers according to the the Centers for Disease Control. Accordingly, the California assembly passed bills (to be voted on by Senate) that would create a